It has become a bit like the inspector raj of yore. Government assessors walk up to restaurants, groceries, sidewalk cafes, and randomly pick up samples of packaged water, coffee, noodles, sandwiches – as a matter of fact, any packaged or unpackaged

The Maggi controversy has hit the noodle industry at a very wrong time. With schools reopening, parents have started looking for alternative snack options for their children since instant noodles was one of their favourite.

Over four tonnes of Maggi products have been collected by Nestle in Goa and will now be destroyed in the presence of officials of the state food drugs authority, chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar said on Monday.